[Morpheus2009]

I’m not sure how much of a difference underground power lines would make.

[reformedliberal]

...difference underground power lines would make.
____________________________________________________

Depending on soil composition, I’m told that electrical charges, such as lightening, can travel 100 miles in the ground. Sand is a conductor, for example.

[logi_cal869]

“I’m not sure how much of a difference underground power lines would make.”

---

None. It’s about the transformers and, likely, generating equipment.

[PIF]

Its not the power lines, its the transformers and generators both of which are not made in the US, as far as I know, but in Norway; they are usually years back ordered. Estimate of replacing the electrical generating capacity after such an attack is years, years with no power for most people and places